Fastening member for vanity cases



ALWEBER FASTENING-MEMBER FOR VANITY CASES June 21,1927. 1,632,863

Filed Oct. 15. 1926 Patented June 21, 1927.

UNITED STATES AiLBElR-T WEBER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

FASTENING MEMBER FOR VANITY CASES.

Application filed October 15, 1926. Serial No. 141,747.

My invention relates to a fastening device for vanity cases comprising a plurality of hinged sections, one of which carries an entrant member adapted to cooperate with by resilient tongues and normally of such restricted dimensions that an entrant memher in the other section must in passing through the hole flex thetongues. 7

Further invention consists in means for pushing the head of the entrant member through the hole .from locked position against the resistance of the tongues.

Invention also consists in further combinations falling within the scope of certain of the appended claims. v In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification Figure 1 is a front elevation of a vanity case in open position containing my invention, Figure 2, an enlarged partial section of the same on line 2-2 of Figure 1, p

Figure 3, a fragmentary front elevation of the socket portion of the case, and

Figure 4, a like elevation of the same showing a portion of the housing flange broken away.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views. As herein shown 7 and 8 general manner two sections of a vanity case connected by a hinge 9. One section, 7, which for convenience is styled the body section, comprises aback 11 and peripheral flange 12; while the companion section, 8, which may be styled the cover section, comprises a back 13, and flange 14. A receiving plate or housing flange 16 upon the flange 12 consists in this instance of a transversely U shaped annular member having an outer side or portion 17 integral with, attached to, or frictionally engaging the flange 12, an inner side or portion 18, and a top port on 19. The side 18 forms in conjunction with represent in a the back 11 a circular cavity 20 adapted to receive a cosmetic compact 21 of any usual construction. The top 19 of the flange is provided, diametrically opposite the hinge 7 with a hole 23, preferably elliptical, from diametrically opposite portions of which extend radial slots 24 opening into intermediate portions of curved slots 25 disposed transversely to the first slots. The hole and slots form two opposed resilient tongues 27 having centrally positioned cavities 28 in their margins constituting curve-d bifurcations. The hole, slots, and tongues constitute receiving and retaining means for an entrant member hereinafter to be described.

Means for dislodging such entrant member consists of a resilient flat bar 29 having its ends slidable in slots 30 in the side 17. Fixed to the middle of the bar is a rod or plunger 32 passing loosely through perforations 33 and 34 in the side 17 and flange 12 respectively. Integral with or fixed to an intermediate portion of the plunger parallel with the bar 29 is a plate 36 provided with a cam face 37 in its upper edge. The hole 23 is in transverse alignment with the plunger 32.

' Referring to the section 8 a retaining ring or flange 38 in this instance holds in engagement with the back 13 a mirror 39, and has upon its exposed face, at a point diametrically opposite the hinge, an entrant member 40 comprising a neck portion 41 and a curved head portion 42. The latter portion is somewhat greater in diameter than the narrowest portion of the hole 23 formed by the cavities 28 through which it passes when the sections are closed. This passage is permitted by reason of the yielding character of the tongues 27 whose four corners only are in the path of the advancing head 42, as indicated in Figure 3 wherein the broken lines represent the circumference of the head 42 relatively to the tongue corners. After this passage the tongues snap back to their original plane behind the head and prevent escape of the latter. The described passage is eflected by pinching together the wings 7 and 8.

To dislodge the entrant member the parts may be grasped and manually pulled apart with sufficient force to cause the head 42 to pass back through the hole 28 against the resistance of the tongues which after passage again resume their normal plane.

To manually pull or pry apart the sec- Ill) tions is sometimes awkward or di fiieult, and

for this reason the push pinor plunger vmechanism is afforded. The camface 37 contacts with the rounded lower portion of the head 42 when they latter isengagedby the clasping means. Henceby'pushing'the plunger 32 inwardly the cam face pushestrant nember carried by one section, a housing flange carried by the other section and provided with a hole In the path orf the entrant member and of less breadth than the entrant member, said flange being provided also with slots extending fromthe sides of the hole and with slots communicating with the first slots and disposed transversely thereto. i

2. In .a fastenlng flmember for a vanity case, two hingedly connected sections comprising backs and sides, anentrant member 7 carried by the back of one section, a housing flange upon the sideof the other section provided Witha hole toperm'it passageof the entrant member, and resilienttongues I integral. with the flange around the opening and provided with cavities forming the opening, the .portionsof the tongues adjacent the cavities being interposed in the path ofthe entrant member.

3. In a fastening member for a vanity case, two lfiin'gedly connected sections, an entrant member comprising a neck supported by one section -and a head, a housing flange carried by the other sectio'n, and oppositely disposed resilientltongues integral with the "flange in the path of the entrant member provided in the center of theiradjacent ends with cavities adapted to permit. passage of the head therewith in contact with the tongues.

'4. a fastening member for a vanity case, two hmgediv connected sections comprising backs and sides, an entrantinember comprising a neck supported by one section and a head thereon, ahousingfiange. uponthe side of the other section provided with a hole of less breadth than the head in the path oi. the entrant member, and withTslots radiating from the'hole permitting passage 7 of the head through the hole, a'plunger yieldingly mounted in the side ofthe second sectionbetween the flange andfthe 'back of the second section and a cam plate upon the plunger engageable with the lowerportion of the head, t V n V In testimony whereofl have aflixed my signature. V V

ALBERT WEBER. 

